| Show THE HOT SPORT OF LONGACRE SQUARE New York Press Jim said the Hot Sport of Long Longacre Longacre Longacre acre square as he grasped the edge of the bar with both hands and leaned forward as If suffering from overexertion overexertion overexertion tion Jim you may perhaps remember a line of romance the scientific papers doped out a few tew years ears ago concerning liquid air nil They said It was the cold coldest coldest est eat ever and a wee bit stronger than dynamite You might give ghe me a couple o 0 pints I need a drink Fall Pall off the water wat r wagon again asked Jim with the solemnity befitting the experienced ex expert expert expert pert behind the bar Jim I fall faU off exactly There aint no water wagon an I fall faU I went right up You might make that two one for you OU you know Ony Id like em today you ou know This aint no contract for fu future future future ture deliveries I If It youve oue gone gono ne far enough up said Jim with grave patience you ou might come como down an specify Liquid J airs out o 0 fashion this summer Well Welt make it anything said the Hot Sport indifferently so Its Us wet and long and cold it must be cold and strong and a nd say sa Jim It ought for to be quick Do you want to see sec eC me die I Howd it happen asked Jim after the second one was va started and there had come a pause half haIr way down the glass glase Draw poker and a horrible exam example pIe said the Hot Sport with a sigh but he would say no more till he had finished what t was before him This ones on the house said aid Jim observing that the Hot Rot Sport had a yearn Much of or a game he h contin continued continued ned Might oUght as well get it all out of your our system Quite a game said the Hot Sport It was me for the money all day da yes yesterday cs Talk about Homer havin a loaf in the wilderness with a Jug an a rag I did but sit an watch an auriferous stream 0 o yellow backs bUks pour Into my m lap hip There was three gaza boes paid me what they the owed be before before before fore 2 an a hunch hunchback hunchback hunchback back with six fingers give me a tip UP an I played it Comin back from the track I ordered two automobiles sent round to a house hause on Riverside I was o That reminds me meI mer I r was to be up there at noon to try em What time Jim Two o tock said ald Jim And as to that poker game George Geor e told me rae You know George Fat man Toes in an his ears flap when he walks George said Raid he had three western yaps api corralled an he wanted a good poker player to sit In Inan inan inan an help meaning me ine meSay meSay Say the th good of a guardian angel that wont hover If mine had been on her job shed have hovered right then hootin things In my ear about money mOley comin com In too easy ens an fadin fad in away awa Nary a hover I went along George joyous Them yaps yap was as dreams Honest I think they the wore Each one had hada a Jag the th other two to an one was considerable the whole three of em together I think there was so much booze It was a repulsive sight to one on the water ater wagon like me an honest hones It looked like a charitable deed to put their thel money where they the spend It You dont believe their names were Tom Dick an Harry do you OU Jim Taint reasonable Well Yell who they th said sald they the were an Tom was the theone theone theone one that was drunk The others othen had done one what they could but hed got there thereAn An poker They all said they was weaned on poker an use it at home as a principal diet They ate any since they the come east an they was tas hungry I reckon It must ha lia been so for I seen Tom eat a blue chip ab absentminded absentminded absentminded like when he was wac trin to tomake tomake tomake make out whether he had four aces or He was mostly In a uncertain condition like that when he was look lookIn In at his cards put ut when it came caine to a showdown there nobody enter entertain entertain tain n doubt I got wise to him nIter alter a few swats an so far as I was wan con concerned concerned concerned there want ant no showdown after that Say If hed had three extra decks to pull from he ha filled em better Hold any big hands asked Jim Fair said the Hot Sport You re remember remember remember member what Daniel Webster said A Aman Aman Aman man can beat all alt the others some o 0 the time an some o 0 the others all the time but there cant no man hold the best beat hand every deal Tom could I believe It though till too late We started with a limit a hundred dollars or something But after a couple of deals we was on the roof bettin up against the moon Them two deals I come in havin Then It come Georges deal dealand dealand dealand and I felt safer Tom anted two blues callin fifty dollars an Dick come In InI InI inI I seen a straight and I raised it a hundred Harry dropped and George dropped an Tom made It three hun hundred hundred hundred dred Then Dick dropped an I went back at him with five more an he made good George picked up the deck an says How many an Tom looked at his hand again Feared to be some dis dissatisfied dissatisfied dissatisfied satisfied an It down Say he was so near paralyzed he em face up an you wont believe It ft Jim but he had three aces Three aces an em away You might give me five fie he said sald ah ai o course I stood pat I I Well Vell I expect him to call no big bet so I 1 IHU t up a hundred an what happened only he boosted the a thousand George was dealin mind you ou that with wither er your our legs my guardian was Just then for Instead o my pile in the pot Dot like a man would I took another look Seem my straight was only nine high I decided to tobe tobe tobe be contented with what hat was g in the pot so I Just called called myself a cow coward coward coward ard Say he had a flush Then there was more things hap happened happened happened after that because I had some more moro thousands but Jim when I look back seems to me it was like that Gat Gal Galling Gatling Gatling ling gun In the Wild West show You know you ou was hit till oud get hit a whole lot more an as for keepin court Then the more Tom Dick and Har Bar Harry Harry ry played the more they kept drinkin an the worse wor e I felt seem see In three North American citizens It sympathy Jim It was worse Looked to me like Tom get getan getan any an drunker an the drunk kind o oozed out o of him like wireless tele telegraph telegraph telegraph graph an slopped on the floor till It washed over Ute tile tops of my shoes an anI anI I i begin to get g t drunk myself although I drink a drop I r dropped my pile though an I was as sore Rare when I r left but I r too sore to listen n to the colored boy bo downstairs when he pulled me behind the screen an ast me if Id been cards I told him yes an I thought hed cry CO COIe Ive Ie been good to that boy bo Jim He says sas I 1 tried to catch you fore you went vent upstairs but I been In the kitchen Dat ar Mr Ir George he hedon hedon hedon don been you all day da an dey d Y had it made up to steer you agin the game Did you lose much marse I told him no an fi I gin him a dol del dollar dollar dellar lar But say Jim if a man like me inc can be did up that way wa what show has a n plain ordinary white man You Tou rou might make It two more Jim Ill drown dron this sorrow if it takes all youve got |
